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The Hindu OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini launched | Smaller and cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo model
GPT-4o mini has a context window of 128K tokens and supports up to 16K output tokens per request. Its knowledge cut-off is October 2023 and the model handles non-English text in a more cost-effective way
The Hindu Chancellor should be ‘elected CM’, not ‘selected’: Punjab CM Mann
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann says that when the Governor does not want to give assent to any Bill, then he sends it to the President
The Hindu Women favour period leave, but many call for looking beyond policy
Is granting special leave for women on their period a progressive idea that will encourage more women to join the workforce or will it provide another ruse for employers to shun them? The Hindu debates this question with a cross-section of women workers and members of a committee formed by the Karnataka government to frame a policy on menstrual leave
The Hindu As women favour period leave, many call for looking beyond policy
Is granting special leave for women on their period a progressive idea that will encourage more to join the workforce or will it provide another ruse for employers to shun them? The Hindu debates this question with a cross-section of women workers and members of a committee formed by the Karnataka government to frame a policy on menstrual leave
The Hindu ‘I had God on my side’: Trump describes assassination attempt in personal detail as he accepts Republican nomination
Donald Trump began his acceptance speech with a softer and deeply personal message that drew directly from his brush with death
The Hindu The baffling case of Rachel Cusk | Review of ‘Parade’
In her continuing effort to investigate the female experience, the author creates an anti-novel that, sadly, seems stuck in the man-woman binary
The Hindu DMK leader R.S. Bharathi moves Madras High Court challenging three new criminal laws
R.S. Bharathi urges the court to declare as unconstitutional Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita & Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
The Hindu Italian journalist told to pay PM Meloni 5,000 euros for social media post mocking her height
Meloni, whose far-right Brothers of Italy party was in opposition at the time, took exception when M., Cortese published a mocked-up photo of her with a picture of the late fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the background
The Hindu Israeli military checking possible drone attack after blast in Tel Aviv
No aerial sirens were reported prior to the blast, which occurred hours after the Israeli military confirmed it had killed a senior commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia
The Hindu Biden expected to make major announcement about his re-election bid: media reports
Most of the media reports said that Mr. Biden's announcement on his re-election bid might come after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
The Hindu ‘Gujarat was the laboratory for today’s India,’ says Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot
The author of Gujarat Under Modi: The Blueprint for Today’s India on how Narendra Modi scaled up the politics and policies he initiated in Gujarat to the national level
The Hindu Infosys CEO Salil Parekh on Karnataka reservation bill: ‘We’ll wait and see what they look like as time develops’
Karnataka’s tech community, with a large section of workers who speak other languages or those who have migrated to India’s “Silicon Valley” from other states, reacted with shock and fury
The Hindu Exploring lives of Dalit youth in urban Bengaluru through music and comedy
Centred in Kodihalli, a locality in the eastern part of Bengaluru, the play explores the lives of young Dalit men and women who have migrated to urban centres
The Hindu A meditation on the relationship between humanity and other living beings
Science Gallery Bengaluru’s Carbon Film Festival had Shaunak Sen, the maker of All That Breathes, a touching tale of brothers who have dedicated their lives to rescuing and healing birds, speaking about what inspired him to take up the project
The Hindu Reviews of Siddhartha Deb’s Twilight Prisoners, and Radha Kumar’s The Republic Relearnt: State of the nation
Two writers on the clear and present danger to the idea of India